Thursday 26th October

13.30 – 14.00: Opening

14.00 – 15.00: Opening Lecture
- Taylor Sherman (International History, London School of Economics): Radio for Rural Development and Democracy: Adult Education in India in the 1950s

15.00 – 15.30: Coffee break

15.30 – 17.00: Dealing with the inherited: Education and Religion in the post-colonial context
- Renny Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal): Science, Religion, and the Institutionalization of Medical Education in Postcolonial India
- Laurence Gautier (Centre des Sciences Humaines, Delhi): Can Muslim universities be Indian universities? Muslim universities as agents of nation-building in post-independence India.

17.00 – 17.30: Coffee break

17.30 – 19.00: Education and the shadows of socialism
- Marcelo Caruso (History of Education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Colonial, Soviet, Universalist, Developmentalist: Transformations of Education Planning in India (1930-1964)
- Daniel Kent Carrasco (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Autónoma de México/Mexico): Jayaprakash Narayan, student activism and anti-Nehruvian opposition in Early Post-Colonial India

Friday 27th October

10.00 – 11.30: Nation and Education: Revising the past, imagining the future
- Shaan Kashyap (Ravenshaw University, Cuttack): From many to one: History textbooks and the making of an ‘official’ India, circa 1947-1967
- Lourens van Haaften (History of Education, University of Groningen): India’s educational future: Transnational networks and their debates during the 1950s

11.30 – 12.00: Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30: Democracy, rural population, and education
- Arun Kumar (Modern British Imperial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial History, University of Nottingham/UK): Educating the Rural Folks: Mass Literacy Campaigns in the 1930s and 40s India
- Parimala Rao (Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi): Neither for Democracy nor for Progress: A critical analysis of Gandhi-Zakir Husain’s plan of Basic Education

13.30 – 15.00: Lunch

15.30 – 17.00: Women’s educational activism facing the State
- Jana Tschurenev (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany): Indian Women’s Organisations, Nation Building, and Early Childhood Care and Education in India, 1920s to 1960s
- Nandini Manjrekar (School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai): Claiming a place in the nation: Women on women’s education, 1940s to 1960s

Saturday 28th October

10.00 – 11.30: Democracy, Development, and education
- Sphoorti (Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi): Education and Democracy: A Marginalised Perspective on Inclusion
- Benjamin Zachariah (Georg-Eckert-Institute, Braunschweig/Germany): Priorities and Absences: The Place of Education in the Indian Developmental Imagination

11.30 – 12.30: Closing discussion